Yaddo Reads: Audio Portal

Building community, sharing diverse stories, and inspiring children to read.

Click on the story below for a preview read by kids like you!

Elijah reads a selection from Black Brother, Black Brother

Naomi reads a selection from Mama’s Home

Bowe reads a selection from Queer Heroes

Evelyn reads a selection from Oddity

Adam reads a selection from Urban Legends: Creatures

Special thanks to the wonderful Yaddo artist Molly Haskell for her support of our podcast Shadow Yaddo and for underwriting our Yaddo Reads Lending Library, which offers books by Yaddo authors for children and young adults.

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Collectively, Yaddo artists have won 82 Pulitzer Prizes, 34 MacArthur Fellowships, 70 National Book Awards and a Nobel Prize in Literature. Learn more about the impact of Yaddo.

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